@RickiTarr
We played "pretend" all the time. Pirates, hurricanes, wagon train, prison, submarines (we literally dug a grave, put plywood over it, and used a cardboard golf viewer as a conning tower), ball games, bicycle tricks, roller skates (knocked out my neighbor's front teeth when I was bike towing him on skates & he tripped on a rock), flood (built a dam), witches and fairies (witches bad, fairies good), starvation (making food from mud and acorns)...endless list...